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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJacob D. LEIGHTY
(1839-1912)
LEIGHTY, Jacob D., a
Representative from Indiana; born near Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, Pa., November 15, 1839; in 1844 moved with his parents to
De Kalb County, Ind., where they settled on a farm at Spencerville;
attended the public schools; taught in district schools; spent two
years at a commercial school at Fort Wayne and then entered
Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio; on July 1, 1861, after two
years in college, he left to enlist in the Union Army and became a
member of Company E, Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Zouave Infantry;
engaged in farming and general merchandising with his father until
1875, when he established the town of St. Joe, Ind.; member of the
State house of representatives 1886-1888; elected as a Republican
to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth
Congress; United States pension agent at Indianapolis 1897-1901;
died at St. Joe, De Kalb County, Ind., on October 18, 1912;
interment in Riverview Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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